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April 11, 2008

Post: Sox Pox On New Yankee Stadium

A devilish Boston fan working on a concrete crew at the $1.3 billion stadium covertly buried a Red Sox T-shirt under what will become the visiting team's locker room to jinx the Yanks, two construction workers told The Post yesterday.

"In August, a Red Sox T-shirt was poured in a slab in the visitor's clubhouse. It's the curse of the Yankees," one worker said. "Nobody knows about it. It's in the floors, it's buried."

The workers say they now fear that they unwittingly helped hex their beloved Bronx Bombers.

"I don't want to be responsible for sinking the franchise," said a second worker, who witnessed the sabotage. "I respect the stadium."

Suspicious timing for this story, on the morning of the teams' first meeting of the season, but whatever -- anything to annoy Yankee fans. ... But shouldn't the shirt have been buried under the home team's locker room?

About 6 months ago I was sipping a pint in my local when a guy I'd don't believe I'd ever met before tapped me on the shoulder. "I hear you're the local Sox fan" he said. He told me he was a huge Sox fan as well and after a few minutes of the typical crap, he said he had something he knew I'd love to learn about.

He then took an ID out of his pocket and handed it to me. It was a construction pass for the New Yankee Stadium. If I recall correctly, it actually had a Yankee logo on it. He told me that he had been working on the Stadium for a while and was "making sure it gets built right!" He then went on to read me a laundry list of the various things he had buried in the Stadium. The T-shirts were just the tip of the iceburg!

According to this guy, there's a ton of Sox (and even a few Met items) buried deep! Some of my favorites were a pair of batting helmets in locations I won't disclose and his piece de resistance which was the "appropriate" placement of his four 2004 Red Sox commemorative coins! "I've got so much shit buried in there, they'd have to tear it down to the ground to find it all" he said. "But just to be sure, I've got a bunch of stuff I've never told anybody about!"

He seemed credible enough at the time (I even posted about him somewhere around here). But this morning's Post now has me convinced the guy was legit!"

Burying things is one thing, if there was a way to set a part of the stadium in a visible location out of something unchangeable (such as concrete or steel) so it reads "Go Sox" or something similar would be better.

You'd bury it under the visiting team's locker room so all those Sox championships can rub off on the team playing the MFYs. Or something. Magical thinking doesn't tend to make a lot of sense

Especially when applied to harmless vandalism. (Who knows, maybe the MFYs haven't won a championship this millennium because some janitor pissed in Steinbrenner's coffee mug when he found himself cleaning the guy's office alone.)

What you really need is to be able to designate certain accounts as trusted non-spammers who don't need moderation approval. I doubt Blogger lets you do that, though.

What you really need is to be able to designate certain accounts as trusted non-spammers who don't need moderation approval. I doubt Blogger lets you do that, though.

I considered that last year. Commenters I knew would have moderator status. Which would mean their comments would sail through whenever, but they would also have the ability to create and edit posts. Which I wasn't crazy about. In the end, I went with moderation.

As long as you continue to start every game thread I am happy. I really appreciate the comments that put the day's game into perspective. Have we had any problems with spammers? And really no response to the Ted Head buried within the new stadium?

Howard Rubenstein released a statement:"We noticed that the NY Post wrote a fun and interesting story about a t-shirt today — but it never happened. Yankee fans know that burying something in concrete in the basement is never a good thing. Memo to the Post: You're 10 days late for April Fool’s Day."

Yankee fans know that burying something in concrete in the basement is never a good thing.